Posted on 03/27/2016 6:08:12 AM PDT by doghorse
The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at acpeds.org ...
2. No one is born with a gender. Everyone is born with a biological sex. Gender (an awareness and sense of oneself as male or female) is a sociological and psychological concept; not an objective biological one. No one is born with an awareness of themselves as male or female; this awareness develops over time and, like all developmental processes, may be derailed by a child’s subjective perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy forward. People who identify as “feeling like the opposite sex” or “somewhere in between” do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women.2,3,4
3. A person’s belief that he or she is something they are not is, at best, a sign of confused thinking. When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such. These children suffer from gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (GD), formerly listed as Gender Identity Disorder (GID), is a recognized mental disorder in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-V).5 The psychodynamic and social learning theories of GD/GID have never been disproved.2,4,5
4. Puberty is not a disease and puberty-blocking hormones can be dangerous. Reversible or not, puberty- blocking hormones induce a state of disease – the absence of puberty – and inhibit growth and fertility in a previously biologically healthy child.6
5. According to the DSM-V, as many as 98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.5
6. Children who use puberty blockers to impersonate the opposite sex will require cross-sex hormones in late adolescence. Cross-sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen) are associated with dangerous health risks including but not limited to high blood pressure, blood clots, stroke and cancer.7,8,9,10
7. Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery, even in Sweden which is among the most LGBQT – affirming countries.11 What compassionate and reasonable person would condemn young children to this fate knowing that after puberty as many as 88% of girls and 98% of boys will eventually accept reality and achieve a state of mental and physical health?
8. Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse. Endorsing gender discordance as normal via public education and legal policies will confuse children and parents, leading more children to present to “gender clinics” where they will be given puberty-blocking drugs. This, in turn, virtually ensures that they will “choose” a lifetime of carcinogenic and otherwise toxic cross-sex hormones, and likely consider unnecessary surgical mutilation of their healthy body parts as young adults.
Michelle A. Cretella, M.D. President of the American College of Pediatricians
Quentin Van Meter, M.D. Vice President of the American College of Pediatricians Pediatric Endocrinologist
Paul McHugh, M.D. University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act
– George Orwell
Early childhood experience resonates an entire life. Abused children are always limited and distorted.
It should be deemed criminal to treat an innocent helpless child in a cruel or unusual manner. And that should include everything from unnatural teachings as well as voluntary single parenthood.
These kids are growing up with a parents who has severe mental issues themselves. It is a shame and the schools, and the media do not help by telling these kids that it is OK to be out there and be something you are not.
The answer is, no one who is compassionate and reasonable would do this. A loving and decent parent would take a child's claim to be the opposite gender the way they would take the child's claim to be a dog, bear, or tiger--with a bit of humor, because they realize that exercising the imagination is a normal and healthy part of growing up.
The parents who take seriously these make-believe claims of being the opposite gender are, IMHO, parents who were deeply disappointed in the gender of their child, and who therefore grasp at any straw to convince themselves that their child's make-believe behavior is proof that nature/God/what-have-you made a horrible mistake and now they must "rectify" the error.
Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. If you wanted a girl, but you got a boy (or vice-versa), it is irrelevant: you have a duty to love the child you are given, and to do the best job you can to raise him or her to be a healthy, mentally balanced adult.
I think this statement opens the gates to lawsuits by damaged children against their parents and those around them that participated in experimenting with the children’s lives!
Absolutely true. How long before raging fangtooth feminazis get this retracted?
I am hoping this feeds lawsuits by children against the GLBT clown cars that push this experimentation on them reminiscent of WW2 Germany experimentation.
How many years of school did it take for these doctors to finally tell the truth?
This statement steeped in sanity and reality is now considered politically incorrect.
If you question climate change you are a science denier but if you believe surgery and hormone supplements can change a person’s sex you’re forward thinking.
One can only hope.
The irony is that many of the people pushing this insane form of child abuse would probably say they are motivated by a desire to lift the stigma from people who genuinely have a sexually related mental illness.
If only they would be honest and realize that their efforts damage many more children than they help. When people have a mental illness (whether related to sexuality or not), you help them by teaching them to function within society—you only make them worse off by pretending that their illness is normal and healthy.
Probably not too long. The following was reported by BizPacReview
The left, as one might expect, reacted swiftly with claws fully extended.
Think Progress described the American College of Pediatricians as a “hate group masquerading as pediatricians.”
The Huffington Post said that “Once again, Paul McHugh has used the ever more tarnished name of Johns Hopkins to distort science and spread transphobic misinformation.”
McHugh, who formerly served as Johns Hopkins’ psychiatrist in chief, issued an opinion last year stating the transgenderism is a “mental disorder” and sex change is a “medical impossibility.”
This is a group separate from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The AAP, which is the more “mainstream”, drinks the Kool Aid.
Bump
Or, indeed, how many years did they have to be out of school before the truth of the matter forced itself upon them?
Ironic that schools are required by law to report suspected child abuse to authorities, yet school administrators are often the enablers of this abuse.
I seem to recall something about millstones and water.
How’d this little spark of sanity make it through the crazy PC police? I’m sure they’ll be shut down forthwith.
BTTT
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